Welcome To The Machine: Kraut Rock
John McCready, Face, The, November 1996
Julian Cope has championed it, new Nineties bands are ransacking it and the ageing German hippies that first created it are now packing in techno and indie converts. Word is out on Krautrock, the 70s trance underground that was the best kept secret in music history - until now.
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